Wow. I knew T90 was good but that was insane! Pushed the best player as far as anyone I’ve seen recently. Proper try hard silence at the end, Hera, and I don’t blame you!
@@LowkeyXxx meta = strategies considered to be the best, so off-meta are strategies that are quite, hm, interesting but not exactly top, so MAA rush for example (btw it's my favorite type of rush XD)
A lot of players think that walls are bad in Imperial age and automatically delete any walls on the battlefield, but if you have siege and your opponent has more cavalry than you have ranged units with ballistics, you need walls to keep your siege alive. It's slow, but siege weapons are slow so that's fine. And no one ever does it, so it would fit with the "off-meta" theme. You just keep building more walls in a tunnel, bringing your siege closer and closer towards your opponent's base. Cavalry can't kill siege if it can't reach the siege. ※ When making onagers, the walls need to be made of stone because of friendly fire.
@keithherron2705 Why couldn't it work on Arabia, though? If you made side walls too, resulting in a "ladder" that your forces "climb" toward your enemy.
Honestly a great game! Loved the constant raiding from T90 in the back fields with Hussars. Looked familiar... Plus you had the same amount of gold collected at the end. Did T90 resign when he ran out of gold?
I'd love to hear Hera's thoughts on this, but I think stonewalling would heavily counter a lot of Meta's, it'd stop raiding, slow down larger armies allowing you to position your own units, and buy time to build counter units, not to mention, even if you're sacrificing stone that would be used for castles, you can easily sell food and wood to buy the stone back, simply from the sheer amount of extra resources you'd be stockpiling by having a mostly un-touched economy. I truly think it has its place in the pro scene to counter many modern meta-plays.
I tried messing around with stone walling but i have to say i dont like it. Too slow and too costly to get them up early, not justified until mid castle age imo
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 I think the question also refers to this game, where you spent the stone on castles at a quite late stage of the game and still had to idle the economy a lot during the worst raids. I can imagine that it would be hard to get a complete stone wall up in the midst of hussar raids, though. Harder than building castles, because the halberdiers and siege can better guard multiple castle builders at once. Also, halberdiers will still be needed whenever the wall gets a hole. So it makes some sense anyway that this chaotic form of defense is what peak performance looks like. As a perpetual low Elo non-legend, I would have to GG after barely a minute of such intense raiding, but you make it work, while simultaneously juggling onagers and whatnot. Absolutely incredible! 🤩
hi hera. great game it was super intense & i watched the whole thing. i'm not sure if you know this but if you set your TC's rally point on empty farms (still green), as villagers are made they will automatically go to all the empty farms. i mention this because towards the end when you are spamming farms, you have lots of empty farms that had vills picked off. if you set the rally point on the farms, it will save you a little time since you wont have to lay down more farms really quick.
That chakram dive at the end against the SO was INSANE, i never realised how effective they are when used efficiently, if he hadnt lost so many shortly beforehand that could've been a game changer
Probally not much. T90 is a beast. I didnt watch it yet. But i het T90 puts up a good fight. I wouldnt expect T90 to win but it wouldnt shock me to much. It is off meta monday. So this isnt tournament Hera. Ask The Viper. What its like running into T90 on the ladder. T90 is probally use to looseing against top players by now.
@@markblackburn2343 It's the LeBron vs average NBA starter. Yeah LeBron is almost always going to win but that average NBA starter can style in any way they want against anyone watching the game.
38:55 poor poor farmer...what did he do to you?! Oh wait... he did soemthing to you Hera. He tilled the land and got you some good ol' food. RIP bozo xD
Yep, it was a typo. And G and T are right next to each other and his adrenaline was prob. a bit high so it's an understandable mistype. If T was where P is then I would say it'd be a little more sus lol.
Yeh, I forgot I need 2 different res after I pick it up. I just get confused why I can't build a castle with 650 stone, meanwhile I just sold all my wood and I'm so pleased with myself with all the gold I have.
Gtg or g2g was in some Hera cocomentary and he lol'd his ass off then ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Sure was a play towards it fron t90 Edit: oh no, i remember now. You wrote g2g as a mistakes and Dave was Theo cocoment and laught. I saw now the t90 video and He didnt remember it😅😅😅😅
Just FYI Hera... T90 said the gtg was a typo. He was just trying to say gg. He was taking the L with respect, but was really happy with how well he did.
It could just as well have been an intentional typo. It's kind of a meme that I heard T90 himself talk about in an FFA cast. So it just becomes a funny variant of "gg", looking like a dumb excuse for quitting, while being plausibly deniable as a typo. 😅
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 2. I watched it all. It was good. Then you went full meta anyways lol. I guess off meta was just off meta openers until you start getting stomped by a caster. I was looking forward to something more my ELO, like trying to make longsword filled rams backed by scorps work in castle, before he gets enough frisbee bois out to matter. It would have probably worked, it's T90, he wouldn't have expected it or reacted fast enough, probably.
off meta monday more like lets give no hope to anyone who wants to exceed at this game because im a smurf who can play at 30% of my skill lvl ( sick flex on t90 people have quit palying because of seeing this in hopes they never can get better)
Love ya Hera, but playing against a non-tournament player, that has no knights, pikes, or blast furnace....on Arabia...you should've either stayed off-meta or given up. In my book, this is absolutely a T90 W. You're literally the best player in the world, on the map you've been the most dominant on for......ever? Love ya man, but you gotta hold the L on this one. 😂
@HeraAgeofEmpires2 You got smoked for the first 30 minutes and switched to hussar/siege spam in an "off-meta" game to avoid the L. Had you stayed off meta, and not gone to the classic Hera 100 farm hussar spam, you would've been finished off. Everyone knows the best player in the world can beat a caster, you should've just held the L. Still love your stuff and I'm not going anywhere, just seemed pretty petty to take something like this that seriously. You just won the biggest AoE tournament ever, nobody thinks T90 is better than you. 😄
@@etherlight_5526 did i say bragging? I said he switched to meta in an agreed "off-meta" game against someone who isn't even a tournament player. You realize saying "lets go off meta" and t90 picking gurjaras, again giving him no pikes, or knights, or BF; against what hera switched into a 100-farm, 5 relic powered, never ending hussar and siege raid was completely cheap and instantly unwinnable right? The entire 31 minutes Hera stayed off meta he was absolutely dead. Again....non tournament playing streamer. 🙄
@@Mike-vn3lt There was no 'agreed' off meta game. This wasnt an organised game, they just ran into each other on the ladder. T90 presumably randomed into gurjaras, he didnt pick them thinking Hera wont do anything meta. Thats not how it works if you watch Hera's streams. He tries different things he wouldn't usually try but if his opponent is countering it he can obviously change, and thats part of the fun, how he recovers from bad situations. Or is it your idea that if he picks a strategy he has to stay losing without adapting? I can almost say for certain that if Hera just lost messing around T90 would have hated winning. T90 literally says in his video he prefers when pro players take him seriously as he wants his wins to be earned
So i do have to say, ive watched both vods and videos on yt and t90 was correct about his lumber camo, for some reason it never showed flames from his perspective, so he never knew it was going down. I know its a minor thing but that early in the game each vil pick is so important and this resulted in a few vil losses
I am more of a T90 fanboy but I mean everything in the game can be generalized into rush, boom or FC. I dunno, were you expecting a forward Mill into three monasteries and Boyars?
Wow after watching from all perspectives, as much as yes t90 was going to lose, he actually outclassed hera in a few ways that gave him such an edge for a good chunk of the game. If he tidied up a few minor things and avoided a couple of accidental big losses it wouldve been a t90 win for sure
I just watched the t90 perspective before this one and all i can hear is "WHATS OFF META ABOUT THAT HERA?!?!"
Wow. I knew T90 was good but that was insane! Pushed the best player as far as anyone I’ve seen recently. Proper try hard silence at the end, Hera, and I don’t blame you!
Not to take anything off T90 (he is really good) but I wonder how it would've played out if it wasn't being off-meta monday 11
btw what is off meta?
On Monday Hera plays strategies that are considered less competitive/viable in the current state of the game
@@LowkeyXxx meta = strategies considered to be the best, so off-meta are strategies that are quite, hm, interesting but not exactly top, so MAA rush for example (btw it's my favorite type of rush XD)
@@TheFuel89not much, maa is a A tier opener, and the only off thing he did was getting 2h swords
Today we bore witness to T90 out-microing Hera. Them frisbees do damage
Hera is officially washed up without even losing a single tournament.
timestamp is 40:50
The whole “off meta” seemed to turn into a little bit of “I can’t let T90 win!” And playing standard In the end. Still gg and wp
Damn! This Hera guy should go pro, he beat T90, although not so easily. Props to him.
he is
@@severebreezeX That's the joke. One often posted in the comments under Hera's wins.
@@EliasHasle oh lol did not relies the joke
This was one of the sweatiest matches I've seen in a long time , mad props to T90 . Good win Hera
Nah f t90. That guy is a douche.
I appreciate the civ bonus image thingy in the beginning!
Wanted to come to the comments and write that. Up man!
"Oh no I was overreacting for youtube" XD
I laught do hard 😂
Fun watch. Thank you. So many crazy moments. Those SO got shredded
Surprisingly close game, well done!
When T90 forced Hera starting spaming hussars he was kind of won gg
A lot of players think that walls are bad in Imperial age and automatically delete any walls on the battlefield, but if you have siege and your opponent has more cavalry than you have ranged units with ballistics, you need walls to keep your siege alive.
It's slow, but siege weapons are slow so that's fine. And no one ever does it, so it would fit with the "off-meta" theme. You just keep building more walls in a tunnel, bringing your siege closer and closer towards your opponent's base. Cavalry can't kill siege if it can't reach the siege.
※ When making onagers, the walls need to be made of stone because of friendly fire.
@keithherron2705 Why couldn't it work on Arabia, though? If you made side walls too, resulting in a "ladder" that your forces "climb" toward your enemy.
Honestly a great game! Loved the constant raiding from T90 in the back fields with Hussars. Looked familiar... Plus you had the same amount of gold collected at the end. Did T90 resign when he ran out of gold?
T90 loves his late-game cavalry raids, it's very much his playstyle
24:10 - that's actually nuts, Imp exactly the same second.
man that was a amazing game. 12:18 lmao love it
2 markets at @13:18 Hera 😂
Anything can happen during off meta monday. 111
I'd love to hear Hera's thoughts on this, but I think stonewalling would heavily counter a lot of Meta's, it'd stop raiding, slow down larger armies allowing you to position your own units, and buy time to build counter units, not to mention, even if you're sacrificing stone that would be used for castles, you can easily sell food and wood to buy the stone back, simply from the sheer amount of extra resources you'd be stockpiling by having a mostly un-touched economy.
I truly think it has its place in the pro scene to counter many modern meta-plays.
I tried messing around with stone walling but i have to say i dont like it. Too slow and too costly to get them up early, not justified until mid castle age imo
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 I think the question also refers to this game, where you spent the stone on castles at a quite late stage of the game and still had to idle the economy a lot during the worst raids. I can imagine that it would be hard to get a complete stone wall up in the midst of hussar raids, though. Harder than building castles, because the halberdiers and siege can better guard multiple castle builders at once. Also, halberdiers will still be needed whenever the wall gets a hole.
So it makes some sense anyway that this chaotic form of defense is what peak performance looks like. As a perpetual low Elo non-legend, I would have to GG after barely a minute of such intense raiding, but you make it work, while simultaneously juggling onagers and whatnot. Absolutely incredible! 🤩
hi hera. great game it was super intense & i watched the whole thing. i'm not sure if you know this but if you set your TC's rally point on empty farms (still green), as villagers are made they will automatically go to all the empty farms. i mention this because towards the end when you are spamming farms, you have lots of empty farms that had vills picked off. if you set the rally point on the farms, it will save you a little time since you wont have to lay down more farms really quick.
Imma hazard a guess and say he knows
That chakram dive at the end against the SO was INSANE, i never realised how effective they are when used efficiently, if he hadnt lost so many shortly beforehand that could've been a game changer
That was a very nice game. T90 did a very good game there.
I would have *loved* to hear what came out of T90s mouth when he saw he matched against Vasco Da Hera.
edit: 11:18
Probally not much. T90 is a beast. I didnt watch it yet. But i het T90 puts up a good fight. I wouldnt expect T90 to win but it wouldnt shock me to much. It is off meta monday. So this isnt tournament Hera. Ask The Viper. What its like running into T90 on the ladder. T90 is probally use to looseing against top players by now.
Viper usually flexes on T90 he is a good player, but players like Hera and other pros regularly competing in S Tier tournaments are a different beast.
@@markblackburn2343 It's the LeBron vs average NBA starter. Yeah LeBron is almost always going to win but that average NBA starter can style in any way they want against anyone watching the game.
A caster made the best player in the world...sweat. What a time to be alive for T90 xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
really entertaining game!! Ty for the upload
Wow I open TH-cam right as you post
Damn that was so intense
I believed we were sticking to the strat until I heard 'hussar' lol
38:55 poor poor farmer...what did he do to you?! Oh wait... he did soemthing to you Hera. He tilled the land and got you some good ol' food. RIP bozo xD
T90 brought me here, must be the 1st time I'm seeing your pov play, exciting!
TIL chakrams do area damage
that was wild
it's not area, it's pass through like scorpions, it looks like area because so many projectiles
We will get the TC drop next offmeta Monday. Keep up the great content.
That was fun to watch! I'm proud of T90. What a treb shot on those SO! Still, his "gtg gg" timing seems a little sus.
He said it was typo and meant to just say gg
Can confirm after I just saw his video. The gtg was a misstype, he meant gg, as he had no more gold.
Yep, it was a typo. And G and T are right next to each other and his adrenaline was prob. a bit high so it's an understandable mistype. If T was where P is then I would say it'd be a little more sus lol.
I like how you used t90 farms as tribute
How do you have it so Arabia is the only map selected when playing ranked? I can’t do that for some reason…..
Maybe the most amazing game I've ever watched
This was siiiick
The tale of the humble T90 defeating the juggernaut Hera 😂
T90s spidey senses must be tingling lol
Chat was playing checkers.
Hera plays vs T90 the way I play against moderate AI, just tryina see what he can get away with 11
If T90 gets any better he will have to start playing in the tourneys!
T90 that was impressive
Why didnt u use Boyars? With 3 castles you could have a mix of Boyars and hussars and able to shred everything
I don't follow too closely but the fact that he matched with Hera means my boy T90 has become seriously good!
Late on squires, would of been my first thing if playing infantryman in hitting castle age
Off meta turns into standard hussar meta when games not going well
Daaaaaaaaaamn T90 next Red Bull brother that was an amazing display
does anyone know the origin of the "gtg gg" emoticon?
A nice lesson in claim your relic
Poor t90 hahahaha
"If T90 wins this he's going to tell that story for the rest of his life" lmao, big facts
what. a. game... respect to both, but T90 was a huuuge! Monster! Thnx for this delicious game!
minute marker 29 unlocks try hard Hera 11
Is it just me or is Hera getting thicc? Gat Damn boiii, congrats. Much love, appreciate the content Hera!
Getting married to a latina does that to you :D
The commentator civil war has begun🤣
SO’s are SO satisfying 😂 I’d say more but gtg, gg
very nice game, wp 😀👍
"oh no i was overreacting for youtube!" 🤣
Blessed, what a fun game.
Do you think Detinets is worth? I don't see pros using it that much
Its good but sometimes i feel like i lack wood when i grab it, so i only take it when im comfortable
Yeh, I forgot I need 2 different res after I pick it up. I just get confused why I can't build a castle with 650 stone, meanwhile I just sold all my wood and I'm so pleased with myself with all the gold I have.
great match!!
T90 Officially weird ALL OF THE TIME, for content but still
Stache giving T90 extra 15% APM
I'm 800 elo, but it would be such an honor to get paired with Hera and lose to him.
One day infantry will be meta
Honestly, Hera is completely broken at this point. Devs need to give him a nerf in the next patch.
You could get your subs the video by making a sub only discord and posting them there. Just an idea.
Iv never seen hera fo infantryman
Gtg or g2g was in some Hera cocomentary and he lol'd his ass off then ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Sure was a play towards it fron t90
Edit: oh no, i remember now. You wrote g2g as a mistakes and Dave was Theo cocoment and laught.
I saw now the t90 video and He didnt remember it😅😅😅😅
Just FYI Hera... T90 said the gtg was a typo. He was just trying to say gg. He was taking the L with respect, but was really happy with how well he did.
It could just as well have been an intentional typo. It's kind of a meme that I heard T90 himself talk about in an FFA cast. So it just becomes a funny variant of "gg", looking like a dumb excuse for quitting, while being plausibly deniable as a typo. 😅
"off meta"
Proceeds to go halb siege with hussar
Did u skip the first 15 minutes where we went full infantry? 😅
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 2. I watched it all. It was good. Then you went full meta anyways lol.
I guess off meta was just off meta openers until you start getting stomped by a caster. I was looking forward to something more my ELO, like trying to make longsword filled rams backed by scorps work in castle, before he gets enough frisbee bois out to matter.
It would have probably worked, it's T90, he wouldn't have expected it or reacted fast enough, probably.
@@Progeusz- I didn't see any chakrams early castle.
The comment wasn't about how to win, it was about playing off meta.
no brain? @@16vSciroccoboi
Let the pro castor win! 😂
off meta monday more like lets give no hope to anyone who wants to exceed at this game because im a smurf who can play at 30% of my skill lvl ( sick flex on t90 people have quit palying because of seeing this in hopes they never can get better)
@40:50
Love ya Hera, but playing against a non-tournament player, that has no knights, pikes, or blast furnace....on Arabia...you should've either stayed off-meta or given up. In my book, this is absolutely a T90 W. You're literally the best player in the world, on the map you've been the most dominant on for......ever? Love ya man, but you gotta hold the L on this one. 😂
What
@HeraAgeofEmpires2 You got smoked for the first 30 minutes and switched to hussar/siege spam in an "off-meta" game to avoid the L. Had you stayed off meta, and not gone to the classic Hera 100 farm hussar spam, you would've been finished off. Everyone knows the best player in the world can beat a caster, you should've just held the L. Still love your stuff and I'm not going anywhere, just seemed pretty petty to take something like this that seriously. You just won the biggest AoE tournament ever, nobody thinks T90 is better than you. 😄
@@Mike-vn3lt what are you on about???, you talk like hera is bragging about this win or something lmao
@@etherlight_5526 did i say bragging? I said he switched to meta in an agreed "off-meta" game against someone who isn't even a tournament player. You realize saying "lets go off meta" and t90 picking gurjaras, again giving him no pikes, or knights, or BF; against what hera switched into a 100-farm, 5 relic powered, never ending hussar and siege raid was completely cheap and instantly unwinnable right? The entire 31 minutes Hera stayed off meta he was absolutely dead. Again....non tournament playing streamer. 🙄
@@Mike-vn3lt There was no 'agreed' off meta game. This wasnt an organised game, they just ran into each other on the ladder. T90 presumably randomed into gurjaras, he didnt pick them thinking Hera wont do anything meta. Thats not how it works if you watch Hera's streams. He tries different things he wouldn't usually try but if his opponent is countering it he can obviously change, and thats part of the fun, how he recovers from bad situations. Or is it your idea that if he picks a strategy he has to stay losing without adapting? I can almost say for certain that if Hera just lost messing around T90 would have hated winning. T90 literally says in his video he prefers when pro players take him seriously as he wants his wins to be earned
gurjara camel moves weird compared to scout
So i do have to say, ive watched both vods and videos on yt and t90 was correct about his lumber camo, for some reason it never showed flames from his perspective, so he never knew it was going down. I know its a minor thing but that early in the game each vil pick is so important and this resulted in a few vil losses
T90 is insufferable
gg
Only way this could be more perfect is if membtv was casting this match
WWOWOWL OOLO
"off meta" plays an infantry civ as an infantry civ, even added siege, the thing they are good at, daring today sir xD
Oh boy if u knew the truth about infantry u would understand 111
"off meta Mondays!" *continues to just play defense and boom the whole game* lol
Gg
What about the full infantry till castle age! And the siege onagers! U guys are hard to please 111
I am more of a T90 fanboy but I mean everything in the game can be generalized into rush, boom or FC. I dunno, were you expecting a forward Mill into three monasteries and Boyars?
Wow after watching from all perspectives, as much as yes t90 was going to lose, he actually outclassed hera in a few ways that gave him such an edge for a good chunk of the game. If he tidied up a few minor things and avoided a couple of accidental big losses it wouldve been a t90 win for sure
That was an amazing game, so many nice onager shots. 🫡